Moon Duo has released a cover of Alan Vega’s song “Jukebox Babe”, along with the 12″, which also features The Stooges’ “No Fun”. This follows the release of the band’s album Occult Architecture Vol. 2. 

According to press release, the band explains the release of the cover “We started playing ‘No Fun’ after BBC6 Radio asked us to record an Iggy song for his 70th birthday. We added it to our set to work it out for the session and kept playing it every night because everyone loves that song. We worked up a version of ‘Jukebox Babe’ because our sound engineer Larry got it stuck in his head and was singing it all the time. We figured, we may as well play it if we’re going to hear it all the time. The Stooges and Iggy, and Suicide/Alan Vega/Martin Rev, are all huge influences on us. But we never want to do faithful covers of great songs, because what’s the point. So we tried to push both of the tracks in less obvious directions, incorporating other influences, like California psych and cosmic disco, giving them more of a summer vibe. We knew Sonic Boom was working outside of Lisbon, so we asked him to produce the tracks, recording them in August for maximal summer heat.”

The song has a different approach in the vocals and instrumental with a more rapid light hearted beat, creating the summer atmosphere. The song can be heard below.